Epigaea repensL.

trailing arbutus

WFO wfo-0000668626 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Epigaea repens, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. a Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205173286
Epigaea repens, photographed by Jake OFlaherty
fig. b Jake OFlaherty, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203383730
Epigaea repens, photographed by Nash Turley
fig. c Nash Turley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202448486
Epigaea repens, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201966407
Epigaea repens, photographed by Sean Grasing
fig. e Sean Grasing, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201843703
Epigaea repens, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. f Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202343225
Epigaea repens, photographed by Pierre Cartier
fig. g Pierre Cartier, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202146837
Epigaea repens, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. h Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202606705

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Flowering n = 8,772 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 8,772 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Epigaea repens f. plena Rehder
  • Epigaea repens f. repens
  • Epigaea repens f. rosea Farw.
  • Epigaea repens f. rubicunda (D.Don) Rehder
  • Epigaea repens var. glabrifolia Fernald
  • Epigaea repens var. repens
  • Epigaea repens var. rubicunda D.Don
  • Epigaea rubicunda (D.Don) Steud.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.